During my daily 2 mile travels from home to college, I met a delightful fella who goes by the name Lewis. Suffice to say that Lewis and I got along like a house on fire. And since then we have decided to start a modest punk rock band. We like to think that it was not mere coincidence that I happened to play guitar and he happened to play bass.
BUT my good strangers, do you know how much planning goes into playing in a band. None at all if I can be perfectly honest. However, the days in which we are both available have been a bit tricky. But being the two majestic beasts that we are, we have struggled through and gotten a few covers done, including brushing off the dust off of both instrument and instrumental skill and improving vastly. Yes, my sweet strangers, One can only hope that you will see Lewis and I cruisng the local music scene after the summer.
And the search for a drummer, might I add, was tiresome. Months of Facbook begging and asking others if they knew drummers. Person after person after person...but to no avail. FINALLY, inspiration struck my head, like lightining to a tree. My good friend Rachel is quite the accomplished musician and drummer. I asked her and, being the beauitful person that she is, she agreed.
But, you see, that is where we hit a tiny obstacle. I can not be the only person to believe that music in todays society has gone downhill, even since the 1990's, which was, quite frankly, an atrocious period for British music, what with your 'Boyzones' and 'Steps' of the decade. Whatever happened to the punk movement, or The Smiths, David Bowie, The Cure, too name but a few. What have they been replaced with today? Scouting for Girls and the like? We need a new uprising. Not the re-birth of an old movement, but the re-birth of good music. Where have the lyricists gone? The meaning? Pete Dogherty was our only hope but drugs screwed us over badly, ladies and gentleman. Oasis? A couple of arrogant idiots who don't know where they start and thier ego's end. No, my beautiful strangers, we need a re-vamp on the british music scene.
However, Lewis, Rachel and I will struggle through the shit being produced by Scouting for Girls, Paulo Nutini and Towers Of London. We hope to write something good, if not just listenenable, for all you beauitful www. generation.
Something that I can only aspire to produce one day. A song from Alkaline Trio's latest album. Enjoy and, as Eddie Izzard said 'I'm the Pope and here is your vespa.'
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But, you see, that is where we hit a tiny obstacle. I can not be the only person to believe that music in todays society has gone downhill, even since the 1990's, which was, quite frankly, an atrocious period for British music, what with your 'Boyzones' and 'Steps' of the decade. Whatever happened to the punk movement, or The Smiths, David Bowie, The Cure, too name but a few. What have they been replaced with today? Scouting for Girls and the like? We need a new uprising. Not the re-birth of an old movement, but the re-birth of good music. Where have the lyricists gone? The meaning? Pete Dogherty was our only hope but drugs screwed us over badly, ladies and gentleman. Oasis? A couple of arrogant idiots who don't know where they start and thier ego's end. No, my beautiful strangers, we need a re-vamp on the british music scene.
However, Lewis, Rachel and I will struggle through the shit being produced by Scouting for Girls, Paulo Nutini and Towers Of London. We hope to write something good, if not just listenenable, for all you beauitful www. generation.
Something that I can only aspire to produce one day. A song from Alkaline Trio's latest album. Enjoy and, as Eddie Izzard said 'I'm the Pope and here is your vespa.'
X
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